Mike Nolan
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The soup was good, but I think I'd do it a bit differently next time, I don't think it reduced enough and as a result it needed more veggies. The star anise adds a subtle flavor to the soup that is more of an after-taste. I tried it with some bread, with oyster crackers and with saltines, all 3 worked well.
I am trying a new recipe for supper tonight: cock-a-leekie soup, using a NY Times recipe:
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1022930-cock-a-leekie-soup-scottish-chicken-and-leek-soup
The main ingredients are chicken and leeks, but there's also celery, carrots, bay leaf, thyme, parsley, star anise, rice (or barley) and prunes. (I left out the garlic, of course.) The chicken and leek greens are just starting to get to a boil, and it smells interesting already.
We're in a winter storm watch, with anywhere from an inch to 10 inches of snow forecast, depending upon the latest update. Right now it is just flurries, but it's a good day for a nice warm soup.
Pineapple in carrot cake sounds weird to me, but my wife says she's seen it. Some people put coconut in carrot cake, and she usually won't eat anything with coconut in it, though recently she's been willing to eat the frosting on a Germans sweet chocolate cake.
It was pizza night here, and I had a salad too.
The scoop number is supposed to represent the number of scoops in a quart, but how full you fill each scoop is a big factor, and it always seems to me that a larger scoop is prone to produce a rounder ball of dough than a smaller scoop.
On the basis of the size numbers alone, if a #60 scoop produces 60 cookies, a #50 scoop should logically produce 50 cookies, but I only got 38 a few days ago.
The #50 scoop produced dough balls that weighed around 1.2 ounces each, the #60 scoop produced dough balls that weighed around 0.8 ounces each.
The other thing I noticed is that the #50 size cookies seemed to have a more open interior. (These cookies tend to have big open areas inside, which is why they're so good with milk, as they have lots of space to hold the milk when you dunk them.)
Georgia made too many mistakes and Notre Dame took advantage of nearly all of them.
Interesting that all 4 of the teams that got automatic byes lost this week, wonder what that'll do to next year's playoffs. There's already talk of expanding to 14 or 16 teams.
I had leftover chili, Diane had a salad.
Did another batch of oatmeal crisps chocolate chip cookies, this time with a #60 scoop, I got 60 cookies.
Been looking at a recipe for Swabian pretzels, not sure if I've got the right stuff to make it yet.
December 30, 2024 at 10:45 pm in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of December 29, 2024? #45118I made a batch of oatmeal crisps (chocolate chip cookies) today. I've used a #70 or a #60 scoop in the past, today I used my new #50, it made the cookies about 1.2 ounces each post-baking, and they took about 5-6 minutes longer in the oven. The batch made 38 cookies.
December 30, 2024 at 10:42 pm in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of December 29, 2024? #45117Working on leftovers here, so bagels and whatever else was in the fridge, which hopefully will be repaired on Thursday.
Made a 3rd batch of oatmeal-date-raisin cookies, grinding up the oatmeal a bit, doubling the dates, and making them with a #50 scoop (previous batches were with a #60 or #40.) We like this batch the most.
December 29, 2024 at 8:46 pm in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of December 29, 2024? #45113We had bagels for supper, we're trying to transition back to a more keto-friendly post-holiday food regimen.
December 28, 2024 at 5:21 pm in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of December 22, 2024? #45101We're having Steak Diane again, got to use up the rest of the tenderloin. 🙂
One of the items I ordered the first time was a set of tools that was missing one item. I emailed them on Wednesday evening (Christmas day) and by noon on Thursday the replacement was ready to be shipped direct to my son's house in Pittsburgh (he's leaving in a few days), so they get an A+ from me on service.
I was interested in some of the Fiesta items they have. We have a large collection of classic Fiesta, some of it dates back to my wife's grandmother. Some years ago there was an antique store in Lincoln that closed and sold out their inventory at an auction. It was a HUGE sale, and by the end of the afternoon, most of the dealers attending were out of cash, so we were picking up real bargains in the remaining Fiesta, like a stack of a dozen bread plates for $5.
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